Confederate Capitol of Missouri

Thomas C. Reynolds, the governor here, was born in South Carolina in 1821, according to the Missouri Encyclopedia, and became United States district attorney in St. Louis. He wounded B. Gratz Brown in an 1856 duel and was elected Missouri's lieutenant governor in 1860. After Claiborne Fox Jackson died, Reynolds argued successfully in December 1862 that the exiled governor's office was his. After the war he fled to Mexico with Jo Shelby and came back in 1868. On March 30, 1887, he was found dead at the bottom of an elevator shaft in the St. Louis Federal Building.

What the plaque says

Confederate Capitol of Missouri On this site a one-story frame house served as headquarters of the Civil War State Government of Missouri in exile. Governor Thomas C. Reynolds and his staff directed the civil and military affairs of Confederate Missourians from Marshall beginning in November, 1863 until June, 1865. The governor's mansion was in a one-story frame cottage then located directly west across the street. A memorial to Texans who served the Confederacy (1963)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Harrison County Historical Museum — steps away
  Galleries in Marshall's 1901 courthouse that run from the Caddo to the present, with Wiley College, Lady Bird Johnson's inaugural gown and a military gallery across the square in Memorial City Hall.
• Starr Family Home State Historic Site — 0.3 mi
  Maplecroft, the 1871 Greek Revival house Frank Starr built in Marshall, with Ruth Starr Blake's glass and china, an 1880s kitchen restored in 2019 and a retirement home built for a formerly enslaved person.
• Texas and Pacific Railway Depot and Museum — 0.7 mi
  The only surviving building of the Texas and Pacific shops at Marshall, a 1912 Mission Revival depot saved from demolition in the 1990s, still an Amtrak stop, with a railway museum and a Mikado locomotive.
• Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge — 14 mi
  Wetlands and woods on part of a former ammunition plant, now a refuge for wood ducks, prothonotary warblers and alligator snapping turtles, with four easy trails and a free visitor center on a Ramsar lake.

More markers nearby

• C.G. Lancaster — steps away
• Marshall — steps away
• Harrison County — 0.2 mi
• Whetstone Memorial — 0.2 mi